“The decisions we make and the behaviors we choose have much more to do with our well-being than any prescribed routine,” he continues. “Some people come to sit by the pool and have cocktails, without a lick of exercise or introspection, while others confront physical and emotional fears head-on. At different times in life you need different things.”

After all, when guests go back home, they’ll be confronted with critical life choices every day. Miraval not only proffers countless routes to improved well-being, but it aims to get guests thinking harder about using less, and living sustainably and ever more mindfully. “Just as life is what you make it,” Marxer says, “a Miraval experience is how you interpret it.”